[Android] Remove the Shuffle / Play Button

[-quazar]

Hi, I tried out your new design, which I have mixed feelings about, but nevermind that. The most annoying thing I come over in the new Spotify (for iPhone by the way) is the dumb, big, overlapping, unnecessary shuffle play button that pops up everywhere. Is this a bug or is this on purpose? Could at least had add an option for it. Also, it doesn't look streamlined at all with the current design. Did it even occur that not everyone wants a shuffle play button?

[Katheringuzman]

can you please remove the shuffle button it keeps playing songs that are not in my playlist!!

[justinewin_]

The overlapping style is called "aesthetics" :v

[user-removed]

Agreed.

The thing is, Spotify thinks all its users are simple people who don't really care about choosing music, hence the huge shuffle button as if we don't care what we're listening to.

The counter-intuitive, single choice Add To Queue is especially insulting, as if we'll get confused by clear, multiple options. 

Time for Spotify to stop treating us like babies and give us more options to better control what we want to play.

[PoZzYmOtO]

Make sure the shuffle is turned off on the player.

Pick an album

Go to the first cut

Tap on the first cut and the album will play in full and in order.

[arc1969]

Have to agree.  An artist would want you to play an album from the beginning and not just press "Shuffle Play". The button is large, obtrusive and completely redundant to me. At least give us an option to have "Play" or "Shuffle Play".

[Tracerclone]

Well if I can't eliminate shuffle play I'm going to cancely membership. I can't find any way to contact customer service or nothing of the sort. The shuffle play is annoying. I want to listen to albums and my playlists in the order I want to hear them...period 

[arc1969]

I didn't realise people having been asking this for years!  I've just switched to Spotify (from Google Music) and not only does the Shuffle button get on my nerves, the whole app interface is just a mess.  I've no hope in Spotify listening to it's *paying* user base,  so I'm on a trial for Tidal now - which has a normal Play button and has a more intuative design.  So far so good...

[new-horizons]

This stupid button was one of two reasons why I cancelled my Spotify premium subscription some time ago. The level of contempt for users is shocking.

I listen mostly to full albums and this stupid button is always there, distracting and irritating. Very easy to press it by mistake. There is a million ways you can implement shuffling, without p#**%** off users who don't want it. These complaints have been going on for years! Unbelievable.

[markeefe]

This "Shuffle Play" is now on my iPhone, too (running iOS). It's HUGE and obnoxious. I will probably never use shuffle, and it certainly shouldn't be positioned as the most important button in all of Spotify (or on my entire phone, for that matter). Please get rid of it. 

[JoeGosse]

+1 change default to "Play Album" instead of "Shuffle Play" in view album mode